Out of the choices for MALS intro classes, I was most struck by the write-up for this class, asking about self and consciousness, because I’d never really thought about it so specifically before. The materials in […]
Great post, Julia–your description of the (immediate and continual) feelings while reading this novel, of real/unreal with the Editor’s Note, footnotes, etc., resonates with me.
Yes, I think the end quote, when Harry says, “I am Odysseus, but I have been Penelope,” really speaks to this idea of her hiding behind a mask, and her disappointment in herself for not facing at least some more […]
Hustvedt’s novel centers on the theme of masks, self-awareness, and self-deception, among others. Overall, Harry is offered as an ever-changing multiple, but she is also still somehow singular and knowable. In her […]
I found the statistic in Lurhmann’s article so powerful: “The WHO estimates that one in four people will have an episode of mental illness in their lifetime.” Given this statistic, it’s amazing how mental health […]
I agree the idea of a middle ground is important between medication use and taking advantage of therapy (talk, behavioral, etc.), and that these pieces we’ve read and watched this week give a strong voice to the […]
I’ll be writing about how environment changes the self, particularly through travel (adventure and adversity), to try and answer questions like: how/why does change in environment change the self, particularly in […]
I think your post, David, will be interesting in the context of Berni’s questions regarding reconciliation (individual, group, and national, and how these interact with personal, community, and global […]
Telling of experience through words… this narrativizing we do to communicate with one another… is in essence what your last quote exemplifies, I think. When reading Mrs. Konile’s “official” testimony, I was […]
A few anthropology/psychology things, too, might be useful, regarding storytelling, myths, and symbols: Carl Jung; Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth, The Hero With a Thousand Faces); and poetry (Yeats, comes to […]
Your project sounds really interesting, Dag. As a side note–or related, but not really!–this made me think of one sentence in particular from Viegener’s book that really hit a chord: “I have found that you are […]
Thanks for the encouragement, both of you! I’ve always been interested in travel/adventure narratives and documentary, in particular, because I’m not an easy traveler (so it’s vicarious, I guess). I find myself […]
Lieberman picking this fight made me wonder if someone couldn’t find a better way to illustrate the ideas that he and Maslow both have, together, in some kind of new shape: an improved structure that encompasses […]
I’m thinking through some topics for my project regarding the influence of environment on the development of the self, so I think there could be a few pieces of overlap between us in, at least, for example, […]
The 3-5 times I’ve “caught” my mind after accomplishing a task, then thinking, the space has so far been inhabited with a socially inclined thought (remembering to thank someone for something they’d done, […]
1. As readers, how do we approach and digest the information we are consuming? What enables us to trust and/or distrust the writer and the material they are presenting? a) On page 19, […]
